Álvaro Luís Lima
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5455616 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Álvaro Luís Lima |
| PRENOMES | Álvaro Luís |
| SOBRENOME | Lima |
| ASSINATURA | LIMA A L |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Álvaro Luís Lima is a PhD student in the Department of Art History and Archaeology and the Institute of Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. His interests include southern Africa, Lusophone studies, and feminist and queer theory. |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 5 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 3 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 5 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Socialism in Contemporary African Art
This introductory essay and accompanying special issue of ARTMargins explore the role of African socialisms in contemporary art. Artists looking at Africa's radical history face the challenge of responding to a generalized amnesia about the continent's protagonism on intellectual and political radicalism after 1945. Working with under-researched themes, scarce historical records, and apprehensive oral sources, these artists are often tasked to am…
Risks, Challenges, and Possibilities Building a Future in African Arts
In anticipation of the upcoming ACASA Triennial and its focus on radical listening, and in response to its invitation for younger voices and alternative formats, this new series of dialogue entries will highlight graduate students, recent grads in African arts, early career Africa-based artists, and individuals who have taken nontraditional career paths.As Dialogue Editor for this journal, I asked a number of broad questions to participating auth…
Igshaan Adams
During a talk on his 2022 exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, South African artist Igshaan Adams was told by an attendee that many children felt the urge to touch his work: “it's so interactive and your body feels like dancing” (Adams and Folkerts 2022b: n.p.). Younger viewers, less concerned with posturing at a museum, often respond to artwork with their bodies, a reaction Adams's oeuvre seems to particularly evoke. I cannot blame them. …
The Place of Socialism in African Art
In his 1967 essay “African Socialism Revisited,” Kwame Nkrumah makes a distinction between his own philosophy, Consciencism, and what he characterizes as “African socialism.” Whereas the first president of Ghana saw his project as an effort to build socialism in Africa, he distanced himself from Léopold Senghor's Négritude and Julius Nyerere's Ujamaa, noting provocatively, “‘African socialism’ has now come to acquire some of its greatest publicis…
Screw the Nation! Queer Nationalism and Representations of Power in Contemporary South African Art
December 01 2012 Screw the Nation! Queer Nationalism and Representations of Power in Contemporary South African Art Álvaro Luís Lima Álvaro Luís Lima Álvaro Luís Lima is a PhD student in the Department of Art History and Archaeology and the Institute of Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. His interests include southern Africa, Lusophone studies, and feminist and queer theory. [email protected] Search for other works by th…
Risks, Challenges, and Possibilities Building a Future in African Arts
In anticipation of the upcoming ACASA Triennial and its focus on radical listening, and in response to its invitation for younger voices and alternative formats, this new series of dialogue entries will highlight graduate students, recent grads in African arts, early career Africa-based artists, and individuals who have taken nontraditional career paths.As Dialogue Editor for this journal, I asked a number of broad questions to participating auth…
Screw the Nation! Queer Nationalism and Representations of Power in Contemporary South African Art
December 01 2012 Screw the Nation! Queer Nationalism and Representations of Power in Contemporary South African Art Álvaro Luís Lima Álvaro Luís Lima Álvaro Luís Lima is a PhD student in the Department of Art History and Archaeology and the Institute of Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. His interests include southern Africa, Lusophone studies, and feminist and queer theory. [email protected] Search for other works by th…
Screw the Nation! Queer Nationalism and Representations of Power in Contemporary South African Art
December 01 2012 Screw the Nation! Queer Nationalism and Representations of Power in Contemporary South African Art Álvaro Luís Lima Álvaro Luís Lima Álvaro Luís Lima is a PhD student in the Department of Art History and Archaeology and the Institute of Comparative Literature and Society at Columbia University. His interests include southern Africa, Lusophone studies, and feminist and queer theory. [email protected] Search for other works by th…
The Place of Socialism in African Art
In his 1967 essay “African Socialism Revisited,” Kwame Nkrumah makes a distinction between his own philosophy, Consciencism, and what he characterizes as “African socialism.” Whereas the first president of Ghana saw his project as an effort to build socialism in Africa, he distanced himself from Léopold Senghor's Négritude and Julius Nyerere's Ujamaa, noting provocatively, “‘African socialism’ has now come to acquire some of its greatest publicis…
Igshaan Adams
During a talk on his 2022 exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, South African artist Igshaan Adams was told by an attendee that many children felt the urge to touch his work: “it's so interactive and your body feels like dancing” (Adams and Folkerts 2022b: n.p.). Younger viewers, less concerned with posturing at a museum, often respond to artwork with their bodies, a reaction Adams's oeuvre seems to particularly evoke. I cannot blame them. …
Socialism in Contemporary African Art
This introductory essay and accompanying special issue of ARTMargins explore the role of African socialisms in contemporary art. Artists looking at Africa's radical history face the challenge of responding to a generalized amnesia about the continent's protagonism on intellectual and political radicalism after 1945. Working with under-researched themes, scarce historical records, and apprehensive oral sources, these artists are often tasked to am…
Risks, Challenges, and Possibilities Building a Future in African Arts
In anticipation of the upcoming ACASA Triennial and its focus on radical listening, and in response to its invitation for younger voices and alternative formats, this new series of dialogue entries will highlight graduate students, recent grads in African arts, early career Africa-based artists, and individuals who have taken nontraditional career paths.As Dialogue Editor for this journal, I asked a number of broad questions to participating auth…
Art (3 obras) · Law (3 obras) · Political science (3 obras) · Politics (3 obras) · Sociology (3 obras) · African history and culture studies (2 obras) · Communism (2 obras) · Cultural Industries and Urban Development (2 obras) · Engineering (2 obras) · Socialism (2 obras)